Material Girl, chapter 258 bis

It is RILLY not the best time of the year for my lil purse! I don't have the money but somehow ... I do spend it!
SIGH

Well, ewwws goils will agree what I've bought was absobloodilutely necessary (thank ewws for your support here ;-).

Today I've finally received my summer's Birkenstock! ... the first shoes I've ordered online. I had to wait 15 weeks to get them! No kidding!
They said 5 weeks in average (which was already very long). I've ordered them back in May!
Grrrmmmphhhhh

And at the time, I was longing for comfortable summer's Birk'... but now... summer is over and I don't wanna wear anything *that* comfortable at the moment!
lol...
Ha well, I'll use dem a few days (before next summer at least)... to not feel I've wasted money!



And my second deliciously decadent touch of the day was this:



Well, no, these are NOT sex toys! lol!
*Just* a massage kit to relax after a long hot bath. I've already tried it. It's troooooly trooooly wonderful.

(just talking of it makes me wanna jump into the world of laziness)**~~*^* *

So I'm poor but kinda happy... I guess?
I guess.
:P

French Bubbles and English giggles (and vice-versa!)

Take one English rugby player, one german bagpipe player and two Frawnch goils....

....and you'll definatly get a purrrfect evening!

I love it so much when different people are put together. Not that different at the end, cause the only big point on which we did not agree was the way you cook meat. hehe

(our Roastbeef friend cannot imagine eating meat that is *bleeding* LOL! ... even less a "disgusting" steack tartare!)

We spent a very pleasant evening and if we'd get the money, we'd soon be over the pond to London for a good party time!

Bonbecs

Thank ewwww Fitz for all the goodies we've got! Yummmmm!
Viva Americana and its giant candies!



I tried to join Compuserve chat yesterday to say hello to the old gang, but it definatly does not work -if you're not a member-.
Fook!
FOOK!

I have a particular thought today for Ariel (waving towards Georgia) who's not having the time of her life at the moment. But soon, very soon, it gonna be all different! **~~*^* *^^* ^*

Aliens and air ducts

Why do I hardly remember any of my dreams or nightmares?

And why then when it happens I remember one, it's nebber something psychologically strange (like classic ones: falling, flying, walking in a field full of flowers, talking with your grand-grand-ma etc etc) that could gets hundreds of fine explanations!

But nenene, good ol' classics are not for me.
I've dreamt last night Martin and I had significant roles in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings (lol, a pity to have such a teenage'dream...I mean being in a movie...not worse than my last drean where I was having mint tea with the whole Metallica gang! LOL)

... and that between the scenes, we had to learn our text. At that moment we are back in the bedroom I had when I was 16 (a couple of years ago!)...
...BUT... we never managed to learn it properly because Aliens were threatening us all the time. Instead of learning, we spent our time running with the text sheets, trying to escape these aliens (hairy aliens in my dreams).



What you wanna do with that dream, hm?
I wonder!

The funny thing is that at the same time, Martin had a *real* nightmare! He was escaping "danger" in a kind of very narrow air duct, and when he was about to be out, the narrow air duct transformed into 5 narrower air ducts in which it was impossible to go. He had to go back by the bigger one then. Which got about impossible.

Haa, that is a good nightmare, one that makes ya happy to wake up! One that you can interprete easily... life, new choice to make, decisions... not going to fast, etc etc!

(jealous sigh)

Hairy miracles

Joe's hairs growing again!!!
Weeeeeeeeee
He's now new tiny moustaches, like 5mm long. I'm happy that he seems to feel beder on that respect. Still vomiting though.

The call of CthuLOO

If I talk of the spice girls more than once in the same week, you gonna start getting suspicious!
ouch!!!

Actually, we're teaching Lola to go to the loo at the moment (if you get any advice! puleaaaase! ...'cause, Gawd, it's fookin hard!)...

So far, we've simply asked her "do you want to go to the toilets"... but she always refuses (and you definatly can't change anything about that!).

Till yesterday when we asked her... "wanna go and see Ginger?"
She nodded!

I brought back a *Ginger* from London a few years ago.
She's turned to be our loo's keeper.



So now, when Lola's there, she talks to "zinzer" and waves her goodbye when she leaves.
A good beginning, I hope.
But there are not Gingers in every loo (a pity when you think of it!)... which might be another problem!
Arggg!

I gotta find a new plan!

...missed the train!

I must be the last one on Earth (what, what exageration?!) to learn that Björk has just finished a new album!
I had missed her at the Olympics show, but knowing her new album will be available in 10 days... makes me really happy!
I wonder if it will get closer to her *Homogenic* album or *Vespertine* one (which I find rather different)...

Frustated

..because I wanna go and watch this:



+ this:



but neeeeeeeeee, I won't have the time! I gotta prioritize (sigh).
And if I ever find the time, it will already be too late (movies being shown hardly more than 3 weeks)!
grrrmmmmpphhhhh

Dressed to kill

Dunno if you heard about this couple who used their agressive dog to punish their kids...
I heard they risked something like 3 years in jail. Which means, in the facts, 6 months maximum and they're out!

Martin thinks they should be judged just as people using a gun against their own children with the intention of killing.
And I totally agree with that!
People using dogs as weapons should be judged as any criminal using a "classic" weapon.

"This" world makes me sick.

Back to mine :)

Girlie

I was so happy when Marine (Frawnch friend living in London) called yesterday!
As usual, we shared the last news (which took about an hour) and when she told me she might visit us next week with her new English boyfriend, we both turned kinda hysterical, giggling, laughing, talking very quickly, etc.

Impossible to determine if we're 13 or 30 years-old in such moments. Suddenly we turn into gurlz and we're extremly good at that!

When I went back to work, I just could not draw really. I wondered if it was a cawffee overdose or just basic girlie excitment! hehe

I luuuuve it!

Doodles

As promised then (;-), here are a few doodles from my new book.
Actually what you'll see below is the very first work I do when I illustrate a book (as if I had done that since ever! lol).
I just let myself *go* with doodles, trying to define the atmosphere, the background, the characters, etc.
Usually I take the best of these doodles (often only very small details), I don't use them really in the final illustration.

Anyway, as soon as the book is done (probably in about hmm, 2 months), I'll be able to present real work:)

Greekattitude

Have you watched bits of the Olympic games?
On my side, not much (but already too much for Martin! lol)... but enough to enjoy a great show!
I'm fascinated by these physical extreme efforts provided in such a competitive and stressing background. Must be the male-ish side in me.

Or maybe I'm simply fascinated by all these muscles working hard (must be the female side in me then!)

So far, I've really enjoyed handball, swimming and fencing. My grand-mama used to do fencing competitions, I can hardly imagine that. lol

The only sports that bother me so far are basketball, footie and boxing.

"Tell me the sports you like, I'll tell you who you are"
lol

Angry gods

It's been a week now we've thunders! Well I don't complain, no hurricane, no flood!
It's warm, almost hot all the time. Sometimes the temp drops quickly and you can be sure 2 hours later you gonna have thunder.
Kinda tropical for Paris!

With such heavy rains and weird weather, I've managed to work pretty well on my last book. I've done the basic preparation of 8 illustrations... another 16 and I'll be ready for painting them.
I dunno, maybe I'll show in here some of the work in process. It takes so much time, I can't work on any new painting at the moment.
And in september I start working on the Herman series. Third book.

Herman should be available in Italy soon. Good piece of news!
I hope my new tale, in which I really believe, will get same luck! **~~*^* *^^*~~*^* *

Material Mama!

Who is in your celebrity family? by cerulean_dreams
User Name
Mom	Madonna
Dad	Ben Stiller
Brother	Johnny Depp
Sister	Christina Aguilera
Dog	Otis
Boyfriend	Ashton Kutcher
Best friend	Milla Jovovich
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Madonnamom, probably overprotective, but fine to me!

Johnny Depp as a bro? Then I'd be forced to consider sis-bro relationship really RILLY differently!

Aguilera as a sister, hmmm, good for fights! :P

Kutcher as bf, no way... rilly not my type at all.

Jovovich as best friend, lol, no way either!

Doud'

Here's definatly the fifth family member: Doudou, or Doud' (for intimate ones :P)



and that's precisely why he's now so important to all of us:



Doud' had been hiding in a wardrobe a couple of years before Lola arrived.
We had forgotten to send it to a couple of friends who had had a baby.

He finally got free as soon as Lola decided to join. And since then he's his best buddy, his friend and confident.
Whenever Lola feels tired or sad or angry, she *noooooooes* Doud's here for her, avoiding being too talkative or demanding.

Of course we're now slaves to him. He can do what he wants wiff us, he just *noes* we *need* him.
Today we've ordered his third clone. We've forgotten the second one in Bretagne and you nebber know... the original one can decide to have a break!
eeeeck!

I can see Doud' laughing at such a dependence, but he brings so much help that I'd forgive him anything :)

78

Happy Birthday to my *Bonne-maman*, my dear grand-mama who's the most adorable (and talkative) grand-mama on earth **~~*^* * *^^*~~*^* *

Paper and ink

Tomorrow I'll finally get the prints of a year's pics!
I love photo albums, I just could not keep all my treasured memories on a cd. I just like to sit on a sofa sometime and watch some photo album.
It feels really different from a puter (no offence to you, Gulli :-)

I've done a selection of 200 pics. It could not be less!
I can't wait to sit on my sofa to enjoy them **~~*^* *^^*

Drooling

A week ago, Lola went to restaurant for the first time in her life.
She simply had to make it a purrrfect first time :-)

She was lucky because we had a family celebration (65 years's wedding birthday of grand-parents), and so we went to a place where they really know how to make you drool.
We had a special menu (which I secretly took for Lola's treasures'box :P)

Lola luuuved all of it. Posh tastes already ?!!!

Here was the menu:

Champagne Taittinger et sa petite bouchée
***
intention du chef
***
Homard bleu cuit à la minute en salade au xérès
***
Dos de bar rôti, aux artichauts à l'émulsion d'échalotes de vigne
***
sélection de fromages, pain aux noix
***
coupe glacée aux fruits rouges
***
petits fours

with Pouilly fumé Pabiot and Saumur-Champigny "Vieille Vignes" Filliatreau

I can't translate menus (me lazy bum)... but (homard = lobster
bar = bass), and for the rest, just trust me, it was ....woooooo .... (drooling!!!!)

Home Olympiads

Germany versus France
... Dat's fookin exciting!

Ok... Here's the sport: wearing or not socks with sandals!
(no offence to anybody here ;-)


(this foot does not belong to any of us! I insist! hehe)

Martin's view: "you don't do it in summer when it's hot... but when it's cold, it's good because your feet is warm and can breathe"

My (Frawnchly arrogant) view: LOL!!!

If you don't consider the aesthetic point of view (which you HAVE to consider anyway!), I don't see the point in wearing sandals with socks!
If you wear sandals, it's to let your feet out and freeeeeeeeeee!
If you wear socks, it's because it's cold, then rather wearing other WARM shoes.

End of the match: in 30 secondes (GMT1 Europe, Paris)

The Lair of the Beast

Any piece of good news has to be shared just like... candies!
Jack has just come 3rd in a writing competition!
If you get a minute to dive into Jack's world, have a look at his Lair of the Beast's story!!

Joe

Joe's sick again. Vomiting all the time, day and night.
I've just found this pic of him, taken last week. His best profile, I can tell you.
He looks so zen and relaxed.

You would never guess here how thin he is actually...and hardly how many hairs he's lost (here you can see a bit above the eye and under his lil mouff).
But then, he starting vomiting again worries me a lil bit (as in "nope, he's not going beder").
It should improve. I don't wanna take him to the veterinary again right now.

Sigh.

Jason's day

Tridecaphobia, fear of the number 13, is one of the most common superstitions. Biblical origins they say

Am I superstitious? hehe... I did the test... and here it goes:

Superstitious AND Clueless
You're ready to believe anything you're told. Alas, what you've been told is so wrong! Oh, well, as long as you don't let your ideas interfere with your 24-karat life, it doesn't much matter, does it? Go ahead and dance on wedding cake or refuse to open umbrellas under ladders. And just to get this one out of the way: swallowing a watermelon seed does NOT make a melon grow in your belly.

Well I thought it was true with cherries! Not with watermelons!!!
(taking notes)

In the boots of Indiana Jones

New adventure about to start for me.
For me, for me... rather for us!

When can you say you really taste what adventure is?

When you're taking risks, no? When your future is suddenly not that secure at all (but hell, life is short), when you doubt but keep faith...
... when you accept to leave your so precioussssss comfort.

I'm kinda scared but determined in a sort of blessed blind way.
I just don't wanna miss the train, no matter how fast it can be.

I've stopped the pill today!
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

hehe

Marquise

Marquise, dat's my grand-mama's title!
lol... I find this so romantic :)

My next post being an important one, I wanted to add a lil something new to my bloggies. Like titles. I find it quite hmm boring as in "extra-work" but I also find it kewl for the reader :)
LOL I sound like a lazy granni who is always reluctant to make any change... scary!
:P

Eva, my niece (6 years-old), told me the other day she luuuuved... cemeteries!

I jumped on my chair wondering very quickly how you could turn into a gothic goil at such a young age!!!

I repplied then an hesitating "why?????"

She said in the most adorable way : "because cemeteries are always full of flowers!!!!!" (just as if it was the only obvious answer, and well, it was!) **~~*^* *

Okies, I know you are all like St Thomas, you won't believe what you haven't seen (well, at least I'm that way :P)

So here's one of the job we did in the house: getting rid of the ugly greenish surface of the wall to make the stones visible again.

Once the greenish part was off (made of cement and plaster), we had to clean all the joints between the stones. Which was the hardest work we had to do so far (it took about a week).
The joints between the stones had to be 3-8 cm deep so that we could put the lime+sand mixture in them for the final step.
Once you've put very carefully the lime in the joints, you've to wait a couple of hours so that it get just dry but not too dry. And then you've to quickly brush the joints to make them at the same level as stones.
Watta work.

We've not finished the walls of the room, but made 3/4 of it.
We'll make the same work for most of the rooms.
Walls in old stones, that's the way we want it.
The pics are not so good here, but it gives you an idea.
It's already almost a sensual pleasure to feel all these big stones back to life in the house **~~*^* *^^* *


the room as it was a few weeks ago


the room with the clean joints, ready to be filled with lime


stones with lime joints, how the walls look like now

If I had to share in a minimum of words what these holidays meant for me... it would be this way:

*pleasure*
..playing on the beach wiff Lola
..swimming wiff Martin alone
..spending time with the family, specially wiff Martin's parents
..hearing Joe's purring in the sun
..enjoying crepes and galettes and lobsters
..enjoying more wine and beer and cider and aquavit than water... hic!
..spending endless evenings around the fireplace

*sweat* (mixed wiff pleasure)
..dancing in Fest Noz
..working on the hobbits house more than my body could allow
..sailing with no wind around
..running after the shrimpette who tried everything that was forbidden

*surprise*
..realizing I could do -pretty well!- such a physical work (on the house)
..realizing how much work will be necessary before we can live in the hobbits' house
..watching a HUGE, ENORMOUS red moon raising in front of us on our way to a fest-noz. One of the most beauDiful show I had ever seen.
..discovering our carpenter was not as good and as cheap as we thought!
..being the witness of one of the angriest thunderstorm I had ever seen. Elements were definatly very alive overthere **~~*^* *

Dat's about it!
Wanna join next time?
(we need generous -oh and STRONG- hands for the house :P)

Woaaaaaa!!! Now puleaaaase, sit down, relax wiff some catweewee or cawffee and jump in here (miss lulu's server's down for a few days, but you'll get the idea :-)!
Miss lulu has had such a brilliant idea! She's being very busy with fookin exams at the moment... so she can't spend too much time blogging.
BUT
Being a purrrfect blog's moma, she could not stand letting it down for 10 days!
Sooooooo, she's offered to inspired visitors to post blogs there to keep it as alive as usual.
She literary gives the keys of her bloggie to whoever is inspired.
I find it such a good and generous idea. Something that I somehow expected but did not find was a request that people behave in their messages, or at least do not use it for baaaaad reasons. But nenene, miss lulu is definatly not PC! No warning, no advice, just a sharing process.

Ohhhh... and it's both in Frawnch and English!
Yayyyyy :)))

(crawling towards the keyboard)

(keyboard finally reached)

(I need a nap)

We're back and trying to survive the heat wave in Paris. This heat wave stinks and sticks and makes ya feel you are not in the right place here.
(ohhh???)
hehe

Nothing to do with the heat wave we had in Bretagne!
Our blessed time has been xtremly busy, which I expected.
I'll tell a lot more about it soon, but I miss the time right now, mainly because the shrimpette has been very demanding (and devil-training!) since a few days. If I don't keep an eye on her, you can be sure I'll regret it in the next minute!

Glad to be back for two things though:
-to recover, naturally!
-to get connected to ewwws!

(happy sigh)

On the road again. Tonight.
(happy sigh)

I can see in my crystal ball that we gonna have more peaceful holidays than last year. One year ago, we've spent 2 crazy weeks trying to find a house in Bretagne. We finally did, then had to sign quickly without knowing how we'll proceed really...then started the big stressing time to find money. Waaaaa glad all that is over!

Now ok, we have much work to do on our lil paradise, but the most difficult part is finally done.

Anyway, back to the present holidays.
I'm all excited for many reasons (just the way we all are when we're about to leave the sweet routine)... and among them there's this new thingie that has been installed in the family house, there in Bretagne.
I've no idea how it's called in English, but you know... this kinda phallic thingie you use to watch the stars?
There is one there now!!!! I can't wait to try it all the more as the shooting stars' season is about to start no?
I'm unable to *read* the sky, but I luuuve the BeauDy of it **~~*^* *

I hope to come back in a supa-top-blogmood and share with ewwws, my friends, new sunnygroovybananas' adventures :-)

I will have a thought for those working hard... the minimum I can do while relaxing in a hamac :P hehe


Petite musique crépusculaire by Pascal Moguérou
from "Les Korrigans, livre II"

D-day -1!

haha!
Half of the luggage is done and I took only 3 pairs of shoes (2 other pairs waiting for me there! I'm SAFE :P)

Isn't it crual that I speak so much about the good time that is waiting for me?
Hmmm
I fear I gonna receive some huge bill or tax to pay before leaving... just to balance my present good mood (yup, stoopid catholics think this way: there's always a price to pay for Happiness ;-)

Anyway, I can be blind and deaf if I want! ... and only focus on such images as below ;-)


(well, okok, it's a bit OVER-purple for Bretagne ;-)

I was surfing on blogs when I saw one, lost in the crowd, without any *comment* option...
Of course there are still a loooot of them, but how weird!
Blogging without the possibility of *sharing* ând *exchanging* sound really pointless to me.

Poor lil blog, facing itself only all the time. It almost looks as if a fortress has been put around.
Sir LanceBlogt, there's someone or something to rescue here!

Just for the pleasure to see Pascale and I's first book presented between 2 political ones! hehe
(it's our publishing house's page btw)

I have no idea about the sells so far. But we get a very friendly feedback from directly concerned ones -or not- by hyperactivity.
OKOK, here are some examples of the feedback (in Frawnch, sowwwy!)

Second book about dyslexia is done, and the third one will concern kids who are genius.
I already have the text of the third one but I have to make a break before starting. Absobloodilutely necessary to avoid the logical overdose ;-)

D-day -2!

Tonight we start the luggage, tomorrow the car will be full, and on Thursday evening... hullo vacaciones!

If in the meantime I could win lottery, that would make the picture rillllly purrrfect ;-)


(well, okok, it's a bit OVER-sunny for Bretagne ;-)

I kissed my dentist!!!!

Friend's kiss, you nauDy minds!
(just like when you say hello to a friend here, you know?)

It's just that when she arrived, she just welcome me as a relative! lol
So as a pseudo-relative, we saluted each other in the friendly way!
Same when I left!

hehe

She looks zactly like one of my auntie and is kinda much more friendly. That's funny.
She's also the best dentist I've ever had since she said all my teef were doing really well!

Weeeeee!!!!

"working the whole day on the hobbits house's walls then going out partying is a very BAAAAAAAD idea, Candy...."
(dat was my body speaking)

The only part of my body that does not feel pain are my feet now. Which is already something! I think I have new muscles in the forearms, painful reward. lol

We had a very short weekend, arriving on Friday evening, leaving on Sunday morning. 8 hours driving. But we've been right to go there, we had an exceptionnally guuuud time.

Cousins offering to help with the house, then an early party at home in the evening... and finally all going to the fest-noz, Lola included :)
She luuuuved it, specially when dancing in my arms!
We finished the party time with drinks at home.
Slept like a baby :P

Bloody fire has just eaten my heart today.
80 angels gone.
80 devastated families haunted by terrible images.
 
And I'm going to force myself to get rid of the thought, to enjoy a weekend.
if there's one thing that isn't fair, it's Life, really.

fook!!!!
What are these new features again in blogger... "compose" window + "edit html" window!
 
They rilly should calm down, it's getting more and more unpleasant to use it...

Et voilà, in a few hours, we'll be on the way to auld Bretagne.
AGAIN! yeah I know
hehe

(turning DM's song on:
When I'm with you baby
I go out of my head
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough )

We hadn't planned to go there a week before leaving for holidays but... we've been asked to join to party (and they fookin insisted!). How could we resist?!!!
So on saturday we gonna have fun with our fest-noz. Bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy to make us dance. A first time for Lola, it gonna be terrific!

I wish some day we'll enjoy a fest-noz in Germany with the ex-band of Martin, the Frölish Geshray (among the band members, you can see Marcus and Thore, real good friends, who came to play during our wedding).

They play medieval and renaissance music.
It's simply a beauDiful and a very unique kind of music.



(if you click here, you can discover a few songs from the CD in which Martin played. I'm a fan, I can tell you! :P)

I dunno why, or how it happened... but the Herman's author and I have come to a point where it's getting very hard for us to communicate together.

Regarding communication, I'm not THAT bad usually... it's weird, I try to analyse the situation and I can't put the finger on what is not working.

Gawd, we have to work together for a whole series of books... I hope the situation is going to improve...

If I take that:


La Tour Interdite by Juan Gimenez

+ that:


Queen Emeraldas by Leiji Matsumoto

...then I get the purrfect cocktail. I don't know much about painting, I've never been really droolin in front of classic "masters"...
... but if I could learn anything from real artists, then I would chose Gimenez and Matsumoto.

I'm really RILLY fond of their work. Very inspiring.

(well, ermm, if you read me, guys, gimme a call! hehe)

I hesitate... am I going to write a mini-bloggie about our national day or the DVD I saw last night?

We watched Love Actually (I had to rent it secretly because Martin would have nebber taken a movie with LOVE in the title, and Hugue Grant among the actors! lol).

It was very pleasant, we had a great time!
(as Martin said, we reach an age now that almost forces us to appreciate this kind of movie...-laughing-...I still love "Killing Zoe" though ;-)

Weeeeee!!!
There gonna be another goilette in the family!
(dancing around)

Gwenola (sister) expects a baby girl!!!
That is simply fantastic, I'm very happy and I have now less than 4 months to turn into a purrfect auntie (which I already am, of course, but I can always improve :P)

It's funny because I start to feel exactly the same way as when Gweno was preggie the first time. Stressed and over-excited (= what I call a "happiness damage :P")

Okok, I gotta keep zen, relaxed and all.

A baby goil!!!!!
waaaaaaaaaa!

I just had to complain a bit for the weather to totally change!
See, it might be a right way to proceed :P

Last evening, we took Lola out for her first party: le bal des pompiers (firemen's ball) :)
I really have no idea where this tradition comes from, but every year, on the night before our national day, firemen usually organize balls where they work!

So we decided it could be something funny for Lola. We joined friends there and we had a short but really good time!
The place was great, with couloured lights everywhere, funny music (not bad one!), grannies dancing as much as teens, etc! Very kewl.
The shrimpette luuved it, but felt tired early enough.

Soooo, young parents and grannies left about when party boys and girls were arriving. Hehe... that kinda suited me!

(atishoooooo!)

Dreaming of sun, sand, burning desert and even rattlesnake's tssss tssss...

Some time for books, yes, but definatly no time for cinema, and hardly for DVDs.

Hardly!
SIGH!

Whenever I can I watch anything that I've missed on the big screen in the past 2 years, well I do it with huge pleasure (the fact Lola is almost 2 years might explain something here :P)

And so, after all of ewwws zillions of lucky ones, I've finally watched Kill Bill... number one, hey! Count a couple of years before I watch the other one :P

All has been said about the movie.
I think everybody who went to watch it REALLY enjoyed it.

You don't go and watch a Kill Bill when you hope to discover a (thinking hard) wim wenders or james cameron type of movie anyway.

It's really a Tarantino's piece of art. I enjoyed it probably as much as Reservoir Dogs, maybe more. Oulala!
It's just that... ok you start to watch Kill Bill, waiting for action scenes + spicy sense of humour touches. And you simply get 20 times more than what you had imagined.

Magic! Magic! Magic!

Second script for the Herman series done and sent to the publishing house.

And I've finally started the illustrations of my new tale. I have to make about 30 of them for this new book. Probably 2 months of work, considering I can't do that only. 2 months. Gawd!

I think people who *create* (writers, painters, musicians, blog writers..hehe.. etc) will understand excatly what I mean here... I feel kinda empty today, not because of a lack of inspiration, it's more that nothing can come out today. I feel like I've closed some inner door.

Doc, does that mean I really deserve holidays or that I'm fookin lazy?!!!

I've just done a lil painting (24x32cm) yesterday afternoon. "Humeur crepusculaire" deals with dusk.



If I've put it online, it's really because Martin insisted (unsatisfied "pseudo-painter" are so boring, don't you think? hehe...).
I luuuuve the theme, enjoy the ideas I've put in here, but it would have been better with 2 more days I think. I will paint about dusk again! Yesssss!

That's about the weather we've got since beginning of July...



It's a bit too much for me. And it's cold!
My monoï oil has kinda frozen again and if I enjoy good long baths, it's mainly to warm up.

SIGH!

(Listen eww Sun, you've about 2 weeks to join us. You should not resist like that, you gonna have a fookin guuud time in our company (shaking almost salaciously palish legs :P)

No no, I'm angry! I haven't resisted the sales!
I said I would! I *need* nothing and have no euros for just *nothing*!
But then... when this pair of shoes waved at me with its Droopy's look in the hmmm buckles, I just had to save dem.

I thought I had no shoes to kick asses properly. Now it's done! ;-)

Sometimes that happens. Some words sound much better in English than in French, or vice-versa.
I realize that when I'm looking for titles for my painting.

Today, I had to deal with dusk, which in French is "crepuscule".
For once, I find the French word much more beauDiful and poetic!

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next match?
;-)

Awwwww .... and phewwwwww!
Dat was about my reaction when Joe was brought back from his last chemo session.

Awwww... because he looks bad, he simply does not move from the nest I made for him. He has scratched himself even more than usual above the eyes (where he lost his antennas). He is calm (way too calm) but still stressed (wet nose betrays a lot)

And.. Phewwwwwww... because the tumour is not back for the moment, and it was his last chemo session. We won't do it twice, sure thing.
Chemo for cats is kinda new it seems. As expensive as an operation, but less painful I think. And more efficient. I hope.

Hm, and I gotta add a real grrrrrrrrrrrr to my reactions.
Grrrrrr... Because it seems the veterinary has let Joe in his transport's box for the whole day! (usually pets are put into larger cages there).
And we got him back all wet and scared. He has peed on himself all day of course and they did not care at all. That makes me mad. They should enjoy the same treatment for a day me thinks, maybe they would understand.

Alinet is the first blog writer I've met! So far I had "only" met friends from chat.

And what a fookin kewl morning Lola and I spent with Alinet!
We instantly got on very well and we both could not stop talking as if we were kinda old friends who had not seen each other since years! hehe...

Like Alinet said, what is great when you meet people who have blogs is that you already know the personnality through the writings. No bad surprise possible, or hardly I imagine.

I recognized in Alinet exactly the woman who writes the blog. Very open, with a huge sense of humour, very direct, able to talk with equal attention about serious topics or carambar jokes, really sensitive (Lola can confirm -even if the shrimpette was in a rather devilish mood!-).

Yes that's Alinet :))

Oh, and cherry on the cake.... Alinet even knows Apocalyptica!!! Really! What a goil!

**~~*^* *

In a couple of hours, Paris will be trembling in its boots (no, I've not planned to shout again against witches around ;-) lol)... but there gonna be a legendary meeting between Candy Froggie + her shrimpette and .... tadaaaaaaaaa.... Alinet!!! Yup, Alinet! I'm fookin lucky!

It gonna be fuuuuuun!

(dancing around)**~~*^* *

I neber thought I could shout after a granny.
But neber say neber, right?
hehe

I feel a bit bad, though the "granny" in question is a real b..witch!
She lives in the building just in front of ours, and she spends her time insulting the kids (who are not even 10 years-old) each time they come and play in the courtyard.

And each time she does that, I always think I will tell her my way of thinking one day.
For once, she hasn't seen me opening the window today (otherwise she always disappear).

She kept on shouting insults at the kids (telling them the worst thingies, racist stuff -they're portuguese-).
I had to shout more loudly than the old witch! But it took her 1 long minute before she could hear me!

I told (shouted) her if she did not stop threatening the kids I'd call for the police! (which I thought was suddenly the best thingie to tell... old witch-grannies are always "on the side of the police"... a reverse situation was kinda appropriate)

Anyway, she complained about her fragile health, and I told (rather shouted again! gloops!) her to go to relax on her bed then, to stop shouting after the kids, to put plugs in her ears and leave the kids live their life.

Once it was over she closed her shutters and it was peaceful again.

Really! She always makes more noise than the kids!
I hope I will never turn into a bitter dry old bitch... witch I mean! ;-)
How can they be so nasty with kids just playing around and laughing?!!!!

Weeeehoooooooo!!!
On the 17th July, we have a Fest Deiz in Pleslin-Trigavou (can't be anywhere else than in Bretagne, ne? hehe)

We've been there hmm 3 years ago... It was a Fest Noz then. But a Fest Deiz is just purrrfect! We can take Lola with us and she'll simply dance with us!
I can't wait for it, I hope they gonna play LOTS of gigs! and mazurkas! and scottish!

It will happen in open-air, on a field surrounded with megalithes. Last time there was a big fire in the middle and a clear sky with zillions of stars.
***~~*^*

Lola's top 5 this month:

1.Barbapapa
2.Oui-oui
3.Bouba
4.Augsburger Puppenkiste
5.Teletubbies

Das Teletubbies are on their way out it seems! But you never know, they have sometimes hypnotizing powers!
See ya next month for tragic details!

I've just discovered a new band, Rajna, which was stuck in a metal section on some weird webpage.
It's not metal at all. Some compare it to Dead can Dance (shaking head!).
They take their inspiration from Nepal and Tibet (ocb fait tourner fait tourner! lol, je m'égare!)...

Anyway, I've heard their last album only (Hidden Temple)... and after a few times, I found it really pleasant.
If you wanna listen to something really zen and relaxing... you should try it :P

Et voilà! It was the last day for Lola and her lil friends at the "PMI's place".



We'll start again meeting on every wednesday in a couple of months.
It was great today, like party time for the devils. Much music, many cakes, with all the mamas drooling around, as you can imagine. (I could not resist eating 3 tagada strawberries... when 2 seconds later, a mama joined and whispered "arrrgg, I wanna a fraise tagada, but nenene they're for the kids, I can't do that"... I nodded, mouthfull..lol)

Here's a pic that shows how Lola is determined already to resist charming devils! (proud mama here! hehe)



Lola is now almost 21 months (still counting in months, because every month makes a HUGE difference).
She now talks more but rather lil words or parts of words. She says danke or merci when she gives something (just like in restaurants! LOL! la classe!)

For the first time, she asks (in her own way) to go to the loos!!! (but forget it with her lil pot... she thinks it's a horse! It never works!)

Haaaa, the shrimpette is turning into a real ladyshrimpette ;-)**~~*^* **^^* *

pssssst... does anyone know where's the "new item notifier" thingie hiding in the new version of bloglines ?

Anyone who gimme the answer will get a carambar!

Ouch!
I'm in a boiling mood today! Biting mood! Scratching mood! RoaRRRing mood!
Grmmmppppppppphhhhh!

Wanna join for a *cupotea* ?

;-)

I think I've lost a friend.
(no no nobody's dead! lol)

I'm not sure yet, but it's like in a couple of months, a big wall has appeared between the 2 of us.
Or I'd rather say, a big wall has appeared around this friend.

And it's strange, but our differences now make that I don't want to make any efforts anymore to get closer again.

We got on RILLY well for years.
And now I wonder how a solid friendship can just evaporate like that. Life's strange sometimes!

Writers!!!! (grmmppphhhhh)

I find it very VERY hard to work, as an illustrator, with a writer.

I would not give advice about the content of a story I illustrate (though I burn to do it sometimes ;-)... But simply try to tell a writer that a 10 lines sentence might be too heavy for kids, that there are spelling mistakes, that there should be some punctuation.... when he refuses to listen anyway!

ha!

So I find myself telling at the end "ok, you sign the text, can't force you to anything"...

SIGH

I've also learnt a lil something with my newbie experience.
I'll do like every other illustrator for children's book: I'll ask 70% of total payment.

There is much more work (for children's book again) for illustrators than writers (trust me, this is trooooe).

(ooops, I can hear ewws writers knocking on my lil door!)
(woooooooooooosh)
(more safe under the bed ;-)

(I find that blogging about blogs very very paradoxal. I won't do it twice in july, I promise :P)

Reading Alinet's blog about blogging or not blogging, I realized there were not any rule really with blogs.
Everybody finally does it for different reasons.

I can't help thinking though that if we write in blogs, it's because we want to be read. Otherwise we would simply not put our journal online, no?

Now I'm not looking forward getting more and more readers, I personnally don't see the point here. Sharing with friends and relatives is what matters to me. And sometimes if a newbie joins the discussions, that's fantabizooby. If the newbie turns to be a friend, that's even beDer.

Anyway, that was a female-ish (= complicate... kiddin! :P) way to say I was happy to see you all so regularly around here. I luuuuve to hear your opinions, defend your ideas or share your last jokes!

Thank ewwwws **~~*^* *

(cough) have I said I won't talk again about Metallica before a couple of years?!!!

Gawd, I'm such a liar!

hehe

Tonight they (metal ones) have rendez-vous at Le Grand Rex theater to watch (in preview) Metallica's movie, Some kind of monster...
And this theater is really close to where we are, dat's a bit frustrating I reckon!!!

Well you can't do everything you wanna, right? (till you win lottery, that is :P)
Anyway, while the others will be enjoying metal surprises, I'll be preparing my rendez-vous with the taxguys tomorrow morning.

At least I will know everything about how it happened, if any metallica's members joined (they'd beDer not! hehe), etc. Vive le ouèèèèbbbbb!

I'm signing 3 new contracts with the publishing house. Again for the "Herman series".

I'm happy...but...not about to be rich yet!

Woooaaa, it was a short weekend but really good (only talking of time here!)

We decided at the very last minute to leave for Bretagne.
So woooosh, on Friday evening we were on the road to our oasis.
On Saturday, we managed to work quite much in the house with the help of relatives. That was coooool!

I've learnt how to play with a lil pneumatic drill (boys' toys are much funnier than we could imagine!) to get rid of the ugly surface of the wall. We want the old stones of the walls to be visible again.
My hands are painful now, bleeding here and there (lol, dunno how I managed to hurt meself this way!)... but they made a fine job!

What's rilly kewl is to have so many people ready to help there (I wonder what they will ask in exchange now!!! hehe)

Easiest way to spoil a weekend:
receiving the kind of papers you never want to receive from TAXguys, and worse, on a Friday (when of course, you can't reach them anymore for explanations and gotta wait).

Argggg!

When such thingies happen to you, how do you react?
-you think so much about it that your weekend is really spoiled?
-you don't care?
-you manage to put that in one of your inner drawer till monday?

I can do the third. Just forgetting about it for a couple of days.
SIGH, no choice anyway.

wooosh woooosh wooooosh

done!
All is forgotten, it's almost the weekend!
Oh yeahhhhhhh

hehe

Full moon tonight!

(with the dreams Martin and I got last night, it's not a big surprise! ;-)

I dreamt we were having mint tea in some northen africa bar...with Metallica's members (LOL! again, I KNOW!)... (I feel bad for having such teenagers' dreams!!!! grrrmppphhh at meself... hehe)

... and Martin dreamt I was giving birth at home and that according to some tradition his friends made him drunk, which made him really angry! LOL

Anyway, full moon on a Friday evening, isn't it just purrrfect!!! :))

Despite a cloudy weather, I'm sure I will see *it*!
(happy sigh)

I'm still looking for a religion in which woman has been created first...

Not because I am ultra-feminist or whatever, just because I can't believe there is not one single religion or tradition that accepts the logical idea that woman could actually be a source of creation at the very beginning!

(lol, it's too early anyway... I'd beDer have a cawffee instead of blabla-ing)

Anything for a quizz!!!
And I've just found one before to start (early!) the weekend!
(happy stoopid smile)

I thought I'd get a beDer score but ok, I can live with that :P

Bubye Ken, we spent so many good times together... with your macho and old-fashioned style, your incredible good taste, and your ultre-bright smile! I won't forget ya!



Hullo Blaine, you look ermmm young, not macho (or is it a trick), not smiling really (not happy with miss B. and her botox sessions huh? Time to change the goil too!!!), not that self-confident. We'll make ya feel comfortable no worries



Damn... and where's GI Joe when we need him! (ya remember the GI doll with hairs on the chest! LOL! My B. liked this one a lot!)